Arizona Family Vacation

Eric, Kaitlyn, Madelyn and I took a mini vacation to Arizona over Memorial Day weekend. We stayed in beautiful Sedona then traveled to the Grand Canyon, explored the old mining town of Jerome and went to a wild animal park "Out of Africa".

Grand Canyon: It rained the entire ride up to the Grand Canyon, and miraculously stopped once we arrived. We enjoyed observing the huge canyons and was reminded of just how great God is. It was beautiful!

Out of Africa is a wild animal park where we were able to take a small safari ride through an open area where Kaitlyn fed "Humphry" the Camel and "Kuma" the Giraffe. To our surprise she wasn't afraid and really enjoyed it. There were all kinds of animals there, tigers, bears, snakes, panthers and a huge beautiful lion named "Lazarus." When the rescuers found Lazarus when he was a cub, he was barely alive. After 30 minutes of cpr, he came through -- so they gave him the appropriate name of Lazarus. He had an amazing ROUR!

Jerome is an old mining town way up high on a hill. Kaitlyn mainly enjoyed the ice cream and a very small park in the middle of this little town.

It's always nice to get away and just relax together as a family. We were able to visit with Eric's cousin Rebbecca and her her dad, Dan. Kaitlyn really took to Rebbecca and it was good to catch up with family from Minnesota.

Well, I took some pictures and have completed a photo presentation to preserve the memory of this trip. Feel free to enjoy them.

Arizona Family Vacation

• Presentation


• Photos

Love you all and pray you and your family are doing well. Please keep us up to date with pictures and videos you have of you and your family.

Love, Eric, Kristi, Kaitlyn and Madelyn

Kaitlyn's First Birthday -- September 8, 2007

Kaitlyn's 1st Birthday!

On September 8, 2007 , Kaitlyn turned 1 year old!

We had a wonderful time celebrating with family and friends at her first Birthday Party held at Gamma and Namp Cupoli’s home! Everything was decked out in a Princess Theme with Pink and White everywhere. Kaitlyn was so excited to watch everyone decorate before the party that she refused to take a much needed nap. Sure enough, she fell asleep as soon as her party began and slept for - oh, just about the whole time. When Kaitlyn finally woke up two hours into the party, she enjoyed opening up her gifts and eating her Birthday cake.

We were so blessed to have some very special friends and family come in from out of town. Grandma and Grandpa Batman, Great Grandma Mauer and Great Aunt Sharon Batman --all came from Minnesota. Then, we had Uncle Les drive in from Redondo Beach & Auntie Amber and Uncle Amado drive up from San Diego! Of course, all of Kaitlyn's friends Brennae, Marahya, Isabella, Crystal and Destiny -- Oh and Andrew and Josiah, too came to celebrate also.

Feel free to view some of the following presentations viewed at her party and a new of her party. Also, there is a cool video Uncle Amado put together of her.

 Photo Presentations:
(You will need to do a quick Photodex download to view this program. Then, you'll be able to view two presentations -- The first is of Kaitlyn's First Year of Life, the second one is of Kaitlyn with her Family and Friends. ) (give it some time to load)
 Kaitlyn's First Birthday Celebration Photo Presentation (give it some time to laod)
 Kaitlyn's First Birthday Video (by Uncle Amado).
 Kaitlyn’s Birthday Photo Gallery

Lots of fun & laughter on this very special occasion! We really had such a wonderful time! Just still can't believe our baby is 1 year old! We love you and always enjoy hearing about how you and your family are doing.

Love of love,

Mommy and Daddy Batman